Homelessness is a very huge problem that America has come to face. Millions of people, including children, families, babies, veterans, and the elderly live day after day without food, water or a roof over their heads. People that are mentally ill also have it tough on the streets, which can be extremely confusing to them, and dangerous to the rest of society. This problem must be solved soon, and therefore should be addressed as a major crisis that is affecting our society.

There is no way we will talk about homelessness by not mentioning poverty, because poverty leads to homelessness and forced people to commit crime. On my research paper, I will talk about crime and its effect to the society.

According to dictionary, crime can be defined as an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state which is legally prohibited.

INTRODUCTION

What is the main cause of homelessness and its imperative relationship to poverty and crime? Such a question at first may seem unanswerable because we could never pin point the exact cause of such worldwide problems. Homelessness, poverty and crime had been around from the beginning of time and there is no doubt that homelessness is on the increase not only in the world but also in United State. During these past years, United State has been infested with an outbreak of crime and violence and it appears to be at its peak. And the reason for this is many, for instance, the principal and most evident of them all would be the increasing rate of poverty that United State has been experiencing owing to the vast opening in the midst of the poor and the rich that appears to be widening on a daily basis rather than closing up. The poor people of United State see no other means to endurance and to stay alive and feel that they must resort to their last alternative, stealing, the most common form of crime found in United State Adding to this would be the high rate of unemployment that exists in our society mainly brought about by lack of education. So again, the only way for the uneducated, unemployed, and poor people to outlive such a way of living is once again resorting to a world of crime.

Nevertheless, although there are many who see crime as a means of survival; there are others who indulge in criminal acts for mere fun. For instance, those who are members of the call color gangs, choose to live a life of crime and violence because they believe it is cool to be bad. This gang problem has been triggered by the American television and their way of life, because by watching television we see how the American carries out their lives and we imitate them and do the same. So crime in United State has reached its high point and the causes are many, but do we stop to ask, what is the solution to such problems? And do we really take time out to really answer the question? And if we do, do we find methods or means to deal with the problem? There are solutions to any problem and the solution to crime is no exception. Crime in United State has gone beyond our reach because we have let it slip; this is so because we allow criminals to get away with criminal acts. There is a need to implement more severe punishments to crimes committed so as to set examples for other criminals who have not reached to an extreme, the laws need to be revised and be placed in enforcement and this can only be done by more police action. There is a need to educate the Americans children and lead them to a better life, take them off the streets and teach them right from wrong. There is also a need to alleviate poverty so as to lower the high percentage of violence and crime both in urban and rural areas of United State because by alleviating these problems there would be less criminals resorting to stealing as a means of survival. Therefore, one way of trying to solve or alleviate the problem is by being a united country and by voicing our...

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